sort of playing. so, for example, you know, american citizens, 24, 48 hours to get out. does that mean there is going to be an invasion or we have intelligence there is going to be an invasion in 24 to 48 hours? i am not privy to the intelligence any longer but i don t think those two those two things coincide together. it is just a reflection of the u.s. government trying to do what is it is supposed to do for american he citizens abroad, which is protect them and get them out of harm s way, which is which is what they would like to do. in my experience from serving in embassies abroad, when the americans go, a lot of other embassies stand up and take notice and say, well jeez, if the americans go and they ever got really good intelligence and really good information and really good infrastructure, we better get our people out of here, too. so, does it mean that there is this this broad sense of everybody needs to get out because there is an invasion coming? no, not necessarily.
kabul. that would make sense. remember, we have been there ten days. if you re a terror group, want to execute attack against the americans, you start moving to the target, moving your supply chain to do explosive attacks into kabul. i am not convinced that the taliban would really be in on it. from their perspective, as soon as the americans go, that s better for them. the dangerous part of this is like colonel jacobs was saying, as we get a smaller footprint, the attack pattern gets more intense. what we are seeing now is kabul is the equivalent of mowing dish u or baghdad circa 2004. the taliban had taken over the country but do not control the country. there are tons of factions in and outside kabul now. we can t go out and expand the perimeter any more, we lost a lot of our intelligence capability or retracted it around protecting this airport.
today. it is early evening. this morning, the government began to sound the alarm you are jeptly that there was threat of imminent and lethal explosion at kabul airport. this was not a general expression of concern, this was a very, very serious sounding of the alarm, and within a few hours of a british minister going on television and warning about this, that explosion came through. clearly there s been intelligence shared among different allies nations about this possibility. british and other allies tried and failed to convince president biden to extend the deadline beyond august 31st for keeping u.s. troops in the country. when the americans go, other allies are going to go with them. they cannot stay on the ground without u.s. support. we are beginning to see the other allies bringing an end to
0 karen greenburg, thanks so much. that does it for this edition. chuck todd is up next with mtp daily only on msnbc. well, don t worry, andrea, you re not going very far. we re coming back to you in a moment. welcome back to mtp daily. a pair of explosions rocked kabul, have tloefr the u.s. evacuation efforts into turmoil, just five days before president biden s agreed to deadline to get americans out. u.s. officials tell nbc news at least three marines were wounded in the attack outside the airport. hospital officials are treating about 60 people injured and at least six killed. pentagon press secretary john kirby tweeted there were two blasts in what he calls a complex attack. one of those explosions at the abbey gate and the other at a hotel. the briefing he was supposed to have was postponed by events on the ground as was the covid task force briefing. the administration says the president has been briefed on the situation. it is our understanding he is in the oval office
trump says no, we re not looking at the libya model. discuss. yeah. they re using the same phrase, libya model. but they mean different things. when john bolton said that at the end of april, he was saying the north koreans unload all their nukes, missiles, up front. and then we get the benefits. that s exactly what did happen. gadhafi gave up the elements of his centurifuge program. he was talking about essentially getting rid of gadhafi. now of course people are starting to put the two together. i think the north koreans weren t really that upset about bolton s comments. remember, they were the end of april, chris. then you have them releasing the three detainees last week. if they were really upset about bolton, they wouldn t have let the americans go. but they are using it as an excuse, as john said, they want